254009 Action Communities for Health, Innovation and Environmental Change (ACHIEVE)

Monday, October 31, 2011: 2:30 PM

Carrie Fesperman Redden, MPH MRP , Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria, Alexandria Health Department, Alexandria, VA
This presentation will focus on Alexandria's Childhood Obesity Action Network (COAN) -- community coalition that works to promote active lifestyles and healthy eating through policy, systems, and environment changes. Through its participation with COAN, the Alexandria Health Department has played a key leadership role in catalyzing policy and environmental change within the community. This session will outline some of the successes of COAN and will discuss the process the coalition went through and some of COAN's “lessons learned”.

Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and prevention
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning

Learning Objectives:
Describe effective ways for community coalitions to develop partnerships and positively influence health policy change. List four different policy changes community can make. Identify ways health departments can facilitate community action. Discuss facilitators and barriers for coalitions undertaking environmental and policy change work.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I coordinate and oversee the majority of the Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria's project.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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